Professors

Last Friday, on the first day of the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s annual convention, the biggest college sports story of the day was the University of Alabama’s hiring of Nick Saban to a record-breaking $32 million, eight-year contract.  

New analysis questions legitimacy of slew of reports finding that professors' liberal inclinations create classroom unfairness.

Top official of professors' association is up for college presidencies elsewhere, amid reports of managerial concerns.

Presidents criticized by faculty at Tusculum and Sullivan County, but few details available on sources of concern.

California State U. administration, professors' union at odds over pay and a range of other issues.

NEA releases own draft of plan to promote equity and full-time jobs. Its approach differs from other unions, but faces similar tensions.

Survey finds greater growth at public institutions and continued wide variations by discipline.

More colleges offer incentives for tenured professors to end careers -- sometimes through gradual shift away from full-time work, report finds.

Classes at the Community College of Philadelphia were suspended indefinitely Tuesday morning as picketers gathered at building entrances for the start of a faculty and staff strike.

Tentative deal ends strike at Community College of Philadelphia; at California State U., fact finder's report may avert strike.